Kilkenny GAA Thread

Wouldn't rule Luke Connellan out either, physical, quick, unreal engine and can take a score, well worth a shot and only 21 so with a bit of work could nail down a place.

He's come on in leaps and bounds alright but still inter County is different level altogether to club. No guarantee he'd be a whole lot better than Carey or deegan for example. Hopefully few thomastown lads get a run of matches in the league.

I don't think that's a problem for the U20s it's Mark Dowling is the problem

Who are the 5

I just heard of Lyng Neary Murphy

We will definitely win at least one. We have an easy draw every year. Leinster is so bad at the moment we are guaranteed a quarter final at worst if not a semi final. With Limerick going to come back to the pack, expect more all Ireland's to be shared out.

Vereker and Hackett.

Can't speak to the next ten years but in the next couple of years I don't see us having the beating of two top Munster teams at the business end of the season.

Think you've been going a bit mad there lately. Mark Dowling one of a select number in this County to manage his own club to a senior title. Maybe you have achieved something similar or better?

that’s old age for you mixed up between the two age groups.

Some good u21 matches on this weekend. GBC v Village especially catching the eye. These are also games where county management need to be all over. Ryan Corcoran looked very good last week v Thomastown. The search for new players standing out should continue at this grade. God knows we need them

Select few

Seriously get over yourself

Boro men out in force

Mark Dowling had an excellent record with the Boro for the four or five years he was there winning a senior county final and three or four senior league finals. When “hurlingtothebone” tells us his club then we can start comparing. Himself and “village 87”seem to have a personal vendetta against Mark. I already called out “ village 87 ‘s” managerial record which wasn’t wonderful. Mark was certainly shafted this year, his first year wasn’t good and he should have done better.last year as stated earlier had a lot of things going against him like the county board **** ups the Killian Doyle **** up, the venue which if it wasn’t in Nowlan park was supposed to be a neutral venue, We went to Tullamore with at least a12,000 Offaly supporters against no more than300 KK supporters of which I was one were the two named above in attendance? Man of the match that night was the Offaly goalie, we lost by a point to the eventual all Ireland champions having missed a close in free and a penalty. I would find that a tad unlucky, would you not?

In fairness you went in fairly hard on the minor and senior management also

Not at all

Just none of your business

Ah yeah but he's not a boro man

Alright to cut the back off him because he's from o loughlins

At least the minor team got to an all ireland

U20 team couldn't even get to a leinster final under Mark Dowling

But yeah I forgot Offaly won the all ireland and they beat us so that's a success apparently

Nine years since our last All Ireland win in 2015. We lost '16 to Tipp and after Galway winning in "17 a Limerick team that rivals our greatest ever team totally dominated the next seven years and could easily have done 7 in a row. We are falling short in my opinion because the players have not been there of the same ability as those that gave us 11 titles in 16 years and they needed to be to beat Limerick. I don't expect that to change in the short term because we haven't unearthed the next generation of TJ, Tommy ,Larks, Richie etc etc yet.